Mao Guangyu feigned composure, wiped his mouth, smiled, and said to his neighbors:
"It's nothing serious, it must be a misunderstanding, someone maliciously reported it."
Even so, the neighbors' eyes changed. They're all shrewd people; why would they play these ghost stories with the neighbors? If someone reports you by name, there's a high chance the evidence is conclusive; otherwise, they wouldn't have come to arrest you.
Once you're inside, it'll be hard to get out.
The neighbors' expressions were meaningful. Mao Guangyu was in jail, and without Zhou Fangchun's help to pull strings and find someone to save him, Mao Guangyu realized how good his wife was.
Song Qingchun pulled many strings and Mao Anping went to great lengths to find out that the person who filed the real-name report was Cao Zhiming, Qiu Yun's husband.
Cao Zhiming received a letter yesterday containing evidence of Qiu Yun's infidelity. Infidelity is an internal conflict between husband and wife. Even if Cao Zhiming was angry, he would not report it.
But the photo clearly showed Qiuyun taking Zhouzhou on a date.
He was suspicious and asked Zhouzhou if she had seen the uncle in the photo. Zhouzhou nodded and said she had. The uncle even said they looked alike and that he would take her to see her grandparents.
Cao Zhiming was struck dumb. Zhouzhou was a premature baby, only the size of a shoe sole when he was born. He stayed in the hospital's incubator for half a month, but they refused to take him in and told him to take the child home.
In the dead of winter, Deyang was covered in snow up to waist height. If this child were taken back, he would surely be beyond saving.
Cao Zhiming cried as he held the child to his chest, wrapped him in his clothes and a blanket, and used his heartbeat and body heat to save the child.
When his child refused to eat solid food, he bought formula. When the child still wouldn't drink formula, he asked a female colleague who was breastfeeding to borrow her breast milk. As a grown man, he felt ashamed to do such a thing. Fortunately, his female colleague was understanding and gave the child a sip of milk.
Cao Zhiming raised Zhouzhou like this. Fearing that Zhouzhou's health might be poor, he played games and exercised with her every day.
Zhouzhou refused to eat, so he, a grown man, learned to cook.
Zhouzhou loves reading, and he spends all his salary to buy his child encyclopedias, comics, and educational toys.
Qiu Yun didn't want to take care of the child. Cao Zhiming was still teaching at the school at that time. He would bring Zhouzhou with him to class and let Zhouzhou sit at the front of the classroom.
He loved Zhouzhou so much that he refused to have a second child.
He loved Qiuyun too, but this was the result he got.
Cao Zhiming questioned Qiu Yun, who admitted it. He could no longer sit still, so he took the stack of photos and wrote a report to the police, suing Mao Guangyu.
Song Qingchun cried and wiped away her tears, "This man is so cruel. He's made such a scene. What will happen to Zhouzhou? He really loves Zhouzhou. Why doesn't he think about her?"
Mao Anping said with a sullen face, "How can you blame others? Blame Guangyu for his dishonest behavior."
"He's being dishonest and has let the Cao family down, but what does it matter if the child he's raised for so many years is his own or not? Don't we love them all the same? There are so many children in the hospital, who can be sure that the one they bring home is their own? After raising them for decades, they're practically his own now. Even if he really wants to cause trouble, he can't go to such extremes!"
Her words were biased and protective of his own. If Mao Anping put himself in her shoes, if Mao Guangyu were someone else's child, and Song Qingchun not only cheated on him but also made him raise the child, would he be able to swallow this insult?
No man should act like a coward.
Mao Anping understands Cao Zhiming very well.
What a coincidence! Mao Xia plagiarized the manuscript, and Cao Zhiming received the photos right afterward. Mao Anping understood that the problem lay with Chu Yu, but he had already offended her. With Zhou Fangchun's attitude, how could Chu Yu possibly let things go?
Even if she were willing, things have escalated to this point, so this is no longer just a simple matter of having an affair with a subordinate or plagiarizing manuscripts.
It's possible that the entire city of Deyang is about to undergo a dramatic change!
Mao Guangyu is finished!
He underestimated Cao Zhiming's anger and the insignificant person he disregarded in the entire incident.
Cao Zhiming was a nobody, but he was able to stir up a huge wave. Mao Guangyu didn't take Cao Zhiming seriously, so he transferred Cao Zhiming to Deyang, sent him on business trips to other places, gave Cao Zhiming promotion opportunities, and considered himself Cao Zhiming's benefactor.
All of this wasn't because he admired Cao Zhiming, but because he wanted to sleep with his wife!
No wonder he was furious!
Chu Yu left the rest to Dai Donglin to handle. On Monday, the university opened, and Principal Ji announced that Mao Xia had plagiarized, which caused quite a stir.
All the books in Xinhua Bookstore were recalled, and Chu Yu regained the publishing rights to the manuscript, deciding to pay for Chu Xiang's publication herself.
The sales of "The Businesswoman" proved the book's potential. Since it can make money, why let others make money? It's better to keep the copyright in our own hands for future development.
"You'll help me publish it?" Chu Xiang was stunned. "Sister, publishing costs a lot of money, maybe tens of thousands!"
"Ten thousand is nothing. I have plenty of money."
Chu Xiang liked her sister's confident demeanor; she was both cool and beautiful.
"Sis, are you really going to help me publish this?"
"Of course! I'll not only help you publish, but I'll also help you sue Deyang Publishing House and recover your losses. Deyang Publishing House's production was not very sincere; the book wasn't special enough, and the printing and paper were just average. This time, I'll ask Wang Qiuping to take photos for the cover, and I'll ask He Lu, a designer I know in Deyang, to draw illustrations for you."
The female lead in the novel is a fashion designer, so she'll definitely need a lot of illustrations. He Lu's illustrations are quite good; he even sent a stack to Chu Yu yesterday. Chu Yu wants to commission a few from He Lu for illustrations and the title page.
The novel is well-produced, so more people will buy it. After gaining fame, Chu Yu will be admitted to university, and then they will consider developing subsequent copyrights.
She will definitely help her sister out; if her sister wants to write novels, she can write novels; if her sister wants to be a screenwriter, she can be a screenwriter.
Chu Xiang became more and more excited as she listened.
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